Celebrating 10 years!

How Star Trek Dark Armada is (not) funded

December 31, 2015

By Robin Hiert, executive producer

Yesterday the news reached us about CBS and Paramount launching legal action against Axanar, a crowdfunded fan production.
This is why I, as the executive producer of Star Trek Dark Armada, feel the need to explain the differences between Axanar and our
production and that we in no way support or approve of the actions taken by Axanar or their producer Alec Peters.

Let me start by saying we don't accept any kind of financial support by anyone other than our own production team.
Everything we produce is funded by our own production members, out of our own pockets. In other words, a fan production;
made by the fans and offered to all the fans in the world for free. You could say we are one of the most loyal Star Trek fanclubs,
keeping fans engaged with Star Trek without any kind of financial transaction. (Heck... we don’t even advertise on Youtube or our websites in order to avoid receiving any external funds)

There is an unwritten rule between CBS/Paramount and fan films saying that we are allowed to produce these films as long as there is no profit or commercial gain.
Many fan producers, including myself, think this rule is of "paramount" importance to be able to continue doing what we enjoy doing so much.

We actively advise starting productions to keep this in mind and to avoid asking for donations or crowfunding, because of the
negative effects it could have on them or even other productions. Some take our advice to heart, but others, like Axanar, unfortunately ignore it.

Let me be very clear on this again. We disapprove the actions of Axanar. In our opinion their crowdfunding campaigns should be temporarily
suspended until this situation is resolved.

We will continue with our production of Star Trek Dark Armada without any financial support as we have done for the past 10 years until we are told
otherwise by CBS/Paramount.

Star Trek Dark Armada is one of the few semi-professional science-fiction film productions in The Netherlands.

Our goal is to gain more experience in film making, to keep reaching a higher level and to continue producing these episodes with the quality and passion you've come to expect from us. And of course to keep Trekkin'!ROBIN HIERT - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

About us

Star Trek Dark Armada is one of the few semi-professional science-fiction film productions in The Netherlands.

Free to watch!

Based upon the American television series "Star Trek", fan episodes of Dark Armada are published on the internet as a free stream or download.

The cast and crew of Fan Trek Productions consist of volunteers with a passion for film making and an appreciation for the television series. Payment for these episodes isn't allowed in any form due to copyright issues, so no profit can be made. The production is funded by our own team members without any external financial support.

Keep on Trekkin'

Our goal is to gain more experience in film making, to keep reaching a higher level and to continue producing these episodes with the quality and passion you've come to expect from us. And of course to keep Trekkin'! We hope you will enjoy our episodes, the best is yet to come! ;)

Our Episodes

Watch the episodes of Star Trek Dark Armada

These Are The Voyages...

episode 0 - September 2006

This episode was intended to be a 'test episodes' rather than an actual episode for the series. It was a test to see what it would take to make a short episode using green screen/keying technology and what improvement would have to be made to master this technique.

episode 2 - October 2009

Choices, Part Two

episode 3 - February 2010

While Batavia's Warp drive is disabled, Ensigns Belissa and Robberts are on their way to the colonist in distress. What will they discover and what will the Batavia find when she eventually catches up?

It's Dark... Get Over It

episode 5 - January 2013

This vignette was made using 'old' footage from 2007. The scenes were deleted from a later version of the script for the episode titled "Nightfall". The vignette was released before "Nightfall" as a bit of a preview what's to come.

Star Trek Dark Armada

Fan Trek Productions

Executive Producers

Based Upon Star Trek™. Star Trek™ and all related trademarks are property of CBS Paramount Studios. Star Trek™, Star Trek: The Next Generation™, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine™, Star Trek: Voyager™ Star Trek: Enterprise™, and all associated marks and characters are registered trademarks of Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. The fan based series "Dark Armada" does not have the intention to infringe on Paramount Picture's copyrights or break the (Dutch) copyright laws.